Does it really pay to be patient? Or do we just have to be smart enough to know when to abide by the saying?
As the popular saying goes, “the patient dog eats the fattest bone“. Although nowadays when someone quotes it, another person replies, “patient dog don get ulcer” and everyone begins to laugh.
Fetching water this afternoon during our free time before lunch, we had a long line of buckets with people waiting to get water to take their baths, wash their clothes, e.t.c,. Sitting with my first camp friend, we discussed a lot of things in a bid to pass time before our turn. Everybody's been so kind to everybody here, as if we're all eager to make new friends. Anyways, this other pretty girl comes with her buckets and expresses shock as she sees the number of people already waiting. Following the chatty trend, people begin to laugh and give her unnecessary/witty advice. One gist leads to the another and she joins the conversation with I and my friend. Somehow during the conversation, we get carried away and next thing we know, this girl is already so many buckets in front of us. How? We quickly stand to go fight for our rights. My friend was especially annoyed because she actually thought we'd made another new acquaintance. This sister kept insisting that she didn't know. My friend kept saying, “haba, how'll you say you didn't know it was our turn when you came here and met us sitting? I moved and went to stand by my bucket at the tap to avoid another story. Still in the heat of the moment, someone comes with her bucket of clothes with detergent to ask permission to get water but the owner of the bucket fetching kept refusing. Someone on the line said, “haba sister be patient, everybody will still fetch”. This led to a very interesting story from one of the girls on the line. “ Everybody will not still fetch o, everybody should join line and wait for their turn. That's how the other day I did good Samaritan that now made me regret ”. We were all interested in the gist because we'd heard similar stories before. That's how she began to give us gist. “One time we came to fetch water and I kept giving people space to fetch when it got to my turn. About three girls came that they wanted to rinse their clothes, wash their white shoes, brush, and that's how the water in the tank started finishing and time was also running for the next activity. Before I knew what was happening, I'd let many people fetch and the soldier started blowing the beagle and the water was already too slow to fetch any reasonable thing and that's how I didn't get water and had to join late comers”.
Myself and one other beautiful dark girl had a verbal fight at the tap one day too. She claimed she kept her bucket and asked the girl before her to please help her put it under the tap after she had fetched hers because she was going upstairs to hang her clothes. I actually saw the girl who left before her own bucket but she didn't watch the bucket and she definitely didn't put the bucket under the tap. When I came and nobody claimed the bucket, I put my own bucket and began to fetch, it was at this point that black beauty came to accuse me of shifting her bucket.
Everything on earth now requires sense. I saw a meme the other day that said, “everybody like mumu but when mumu catch sense them go call am wicked ”.
Written and edited by: Naze Sewuese
Pictures: person photos from my experience in camp
Comments